Long-delayed development next to Detroit's Whole Foods may be moving forward

[Airforceguy]

It’s been a difficult slog for The Mid vision, but facing a looming state-imposed deadline for public financing, the development team anticipates beginning site work soon. Construction is expected to start later this fall at the vacant 3.8-acre site on Woodward Avenue north of Mack Avenue near Detroit's Whole Foods Inc. grocery store and the Detroit Medical Center campus.

The city has received recent plans for part of the project, a 14-story hotel, according to public records made available online late last month. “We look forward to sharing much more detail about this important development in the very near future,” Dietrich Knoer, president of Southfield-based Q-Partners LLC, said in an emailed statement.

That entity is connected to Mohammad Qazi, president and CEO of Southfield-based Ciena Healthcare, who paid $15 million for the site in 2018. Knoer has previously been a top executive with Southfield-based Redico LLC, Peter Cummings' The Platform LLC and the Eastern Market Development Corp.

It’s been five and a half years since Qazi and his development team first floated The Mid project, which has encountered buzzsaws ranging from financing challenges to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-e...ns-mid-detroit

[stinkytofu]

The definition of believing when we see it.

[stasu1213]

When Target decided to pull out then the development decide to be moved forward

[royce]

stasu1213, wasn't Target supposed to go on the corner of Woodward and Mack under the SoMa development?

[Gistok]

The definition of believing when we see it.

Skipper's Rule...

[stasu1213]

Target was suppose to be sharing an underground garage with City Place or whatever was to be developed on the former Red Cross site. Detroit had missed opportunity by not having a one stop shop such as Target or something like it on Woodward. Let's hope that Gilbert could work his magic in getting a City Target somewhere in the downtown midtown area

[401don]

Target was suppose to be sharing an underground garage with City Place or whatever was to be developed on the former Red Cross site. Detroit had missed opportunity by not having a one stop shop such as Target or something like it on Woodward. Let's hope that Gilbert could work his magic in getting a City Target somewhere in the downtown midtown area

Target closed 9 stores last year, siting theft problems. You don't think that trend played a role in their decision? You can offer all the incentives you want but you can't force a company to open.

[mikeg19]

Looks like they have almost chopped the hotel in half per their statement and the original proposal.

[K-slice]

Hotel looks to be around the same size as initially proposed, the plan had been to top it off with condos though which looks like isn't happening. I'm constantly surprised that there is so much demand for new hotel rooms in downtown and midtown.

https://re-interests.com/properties/the-mid/

[Redesigned83]

Hotel looks to be around the same size as initially proposed, the plan had been to top it off with condos though which looks like isn't happening. I'm constantly surprised that there is so much demand for new hotel rooms in downtown and midtown.

https://re-interests.com/properties/the-mid/

Is this an updated render? if it is...still looks great to me.

[southen]

Those are the initial renderings. I doubt we see that.